Black Friday 2010

Don't tell the IRA.

 

That's my plans today, too.

Last night, we were going a little stir-crazy, so we got the family out for a while. About 7 p.m., people were in line at Toys R Us and at Target. Low temps last night were in the 30s.

 

Four reasons to buy online;

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/11/26/black-friday-2010-four-reasons-to-buy-online-instead/

 

Friend on Facebook:

Posted this earlier as a comment: I think Black Friday is the most unChristian way that we "celebrate" Christmas, and that the orgy of Gluttony and Greed that's exhibited on Black Friday sickens me.
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* I posted this as a response to a "Are you ready to start shopping on BLack Friday! Wooot!" posting. The person who posted that deleted my comment and defended me.

Gee. Maybe I struck a nerve?

 

You mean defriended?

 

I did get in my car this morning. To give a neighbor a jumpstart at 9 a.m. My wife got a few things when she went out at 10. We'll probably get some stuff this afternoon, or at least look.

 

Do our Canukistani neighbors have an equivalent of Black Friday?

 

Just as ritual as Thanksgiving and Black Friday are, you can always find at least a couple articles on violence or unruly crowds today.

All this for deals that are just as good later in the year (or some deals that offer lower-quality goods).

 

I went to our local Wallyworld at about 12:20 a.m. The lines at the checkouts were already ridiculous. The cheap TV DVDs were already down to just Friday Night Lights, Family Guy and Futurama and I already have all the seasons of the latter two series. Saw two guys camping out by the Guitar Hero* games that were to go on sale at 5 a.m.

I decided that the things I had seen in the circular that I was interested in were things that I didn't need, so I decided to just skip it.

Went back to Wallyworld at about 6 p.m. All those Family Guys and Futuramas were still there. And so was one of the items I'd been looking at in the circular. Apparently, our store way overestimated how many it needed**. There were still plenty of the bigger TVs. And those guys didn't need to come in and camp out by the Guitar Heros after all. I think there were still a dozen of those.

* - Or was it Band Hero?
** - A 7-inch portable digital TV, which would be nearly useless in this town because the nearest stations are over 40 miles away. There must have been about 30 of the things. I picked up one for $59. I figured what I can do with it is use it on trips or hook up cable to it and use it in my home office. It would be small enough not to be in the way but big enough to still see a good image.

 

Yup. Boxing Day (the day after Xmas). Same shit, different country

 

Were you the one that wrote the "Black Friday is unchristian" part?

 

I've done a bit of online Black Friday shopping for others; am wrestling with a choice on a GPS unit for myself. Don't really need one, but also saw one with a great price. Ordinarily, I'd pull the trigger. But I also bought a camera a couple of weeks ago and that was expensive enough.